Read the Book of Mormon. It's the closest thing to having a personal one to one conversation with God the Son.
Ask HN: What are your greatest books?
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Re: Ask HN: What are your greatest books?
#22The Four Steps To The Epiphany - Steve Blank The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand The Art Of The Start - Guy Kawasaki The World Is Flat - Thomas Friedman
"The World Is Flat - Thomas Friedman" A terrible book. Looks like he made a talk he gave or a paper into a book. Says nothing in several hundred pages that he could not say in a few. Many things are actually wrong. If the world would be flat, geopolitics would be meaningless.
If the world would be flat, geopolitics would be meaningless.
I think it's pretty clear that it's a metaphor and that qualifiers apply. Nonetheless, the book inspired me and I gained a new appreciation for a lot of things from reading it. For all its flaws, I would advocate reading it to everyone. shrug
Re: Ask HN: What are your greatest books?
#23Read the Book of Mormon. It's the closest thing to having a personal one to one conversation with God the Son.
In the interests of balance you should read up on the life of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormons, and his history of fraud.
You could follow up with Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell: https://users.drew.edu/~jlenz/whynot.html It's pretty short.
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#24Read the Book of Mormon. It's the closest thing to having a personal one to one conversation with God the Son.
In the interests of balance you should read up on the life of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormons, and his history of fraud. You could follow up with Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell: https://users.drew.edu/~jlenz/whynot.html It's pretty short.
I know all about Joseph Smith. I'll leave it at that.
However, my initial comment still stands.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the interests of balance you should read up on the life of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormons, and his history of fraud. You could follow up with Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell: https://users.drew.edu/~jlenz/whynot.html It's pretty short.
I know all about Joseph Smith. I'll leave it at that. However, my initial comment still stands.
Was more offering a counterpoint for the OP than trying to get argumentative. :) I found his life fascinating, not least as it's very much one that would be too remarkable for the biopic!
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know all about Joseph Smith. I'll leave it at that. However, my initial comment still stands.
Was more offering a counterpoint for the OP than trying to get argumentative. :) I found his life fascinating, not least as it's very much one that would be too remarkable for the biopic!
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know all about Joseph Smith. I'll leave it at that. However, my initial comment still stands.
Was more offering a counterpoint for the OP than trying to get argumentative. :) I found his life fascinating, not least as it's very much one that would be too remarkable for the biopic!
Glad you brought it up. The Joseph Smith controversy is the most interesting and perplexing story never told.
Despite the sensation and spectacle, the Book of Mormon continues to blow my mind. Nothing compares.
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#28Deep Work
Rework
Zero to One
E-myth